At this year’s FutureBook conference in London, attendees from across the U.K. worked to determine to how publishers could compete with rivaling forms of entertainment. Though the day’s program flirted with how to capture new audiences (especially millennial men) with VR, AI, augmented reality, and 3-D spatial audio, it was most squarely focused on trends in downloadable audiobooks, voice technology, and podcasts.
Source: FutureBook Wants to Make Books ‘More Compelling than Netflix’